“True capability is only learned when tested”
“True capability is only learned when tested”“I look the fool,” Mattea fiddled with the layers and layers of fabric heaped upon her body. The blue and gold brocade gown brought out the highlights in her fair hair and the sparkle of her azure eyes. The same seed pearls trimming every edge of her overgown hung from her ears and took strategic spots upon her grand coiffure of twisted and piled braids.
All this the girl could accept, grateful to Isabetta for finding such an ensemble for her and helping her into it, though she felt weighed down by a net full of stones. In the reflective glass’s gaze, however, the face looking back at her, one adorned by cosmetics for the first time in its life, gave her pause. How surprised she was by the glow upo
